Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,
A lovely neighborhood this Sunday afternoon is rocked again by random gunshots. The shots make Bertha wonder, as she sips tea in her old rocker,
After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.
So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,
Herb’s wife says the grass needs cutting and Herb agrees. She says the neighbors are upset he hasn’t cut it for the last five weeks.
The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.
Been in trouble all my life childhood through old age. I took the alleys
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.
The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around
If you’ve seen a cockatoo up close in a cage or at a zoo you may have noticed how a cockatoo looks at you.
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare
I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening
Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…